AT 3.45pm on Wednesday, Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan will unveil the measures to be implemented in 2010 to achieve €4 billion in public finance savings.
TODAY
Meeting:Origin Enterprises agm (Westbury Hotel); Financial services innovation forum with governor of the Central Bank Prof Patrick Honohan (Enterprise Ireland, Eastpoint); ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet opens conference on justice and the crisis (Paris); Engineers Ireland lecture.
Indicators:EU-16 Sentix sentiment index (Dec); Irish output, input and income in agriculture (2009), information society statistics, enterprise statistics (2009) and vehicles licensed for first time (Nov).
Other:Launch of National Competitiveness Council report (Wilton Park House); OECD secretary general Angel Gurría keynote speech at Global Forum on Investment.
TOMORROW
Results:Bank of Nova Scotia.
Meeting:Corporate Restructuring summit (Burlington Hotel, D4).
Indicators:Irish Live Register additional tables (Nov); UK BRC retail sales (Nov), industrial production (Oct), CBI industrial trends survey (Dec) and NIESR GDP estimate (three months to Nov); German industrial production (Oct).
WEDNESDAY
Budget 2010.
Meeting:ASB Policy Proposal: The Future of UK and Irish GAAP accountancy seminar; Le Web '09 web company awards.
Indicators:US wholesale inventories (Oct); UK nationwide consumer confidence (Nov) and trade balance /non-EU (Oct); Japanese domestic wholesale prices (Nov) and core machinery orders (Oct).
THURSDAY
Meeting:Stillorgan Chamber of Commerce and Wallace O'Donoghue post-Budget briefings; Russell Brennan Keane to hold two post-Budget briefings (D4 Hotel Ballsbridge and Sheraton, Athlone).
Indicators:ECB monthly bulletin; Irish consumer price index (Nov), industrial production and turnover (Oct) and industrial disputes (Q3); German wholesale prices (Nov); French industrial production (Oct).
FRIDAY
Results:HMV.
Meeting:Dragon Oil court meeting and egm (London); OECD debate on bribery and corruption (Paris).
Indicators:Irish retail sales index (Oct) and service exports and imports (2007 and 2008); UK PPI Input (Nov).
